# Architecture
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The following architecture diagrams show scale-up and scale-out environments for SAP HANA workloads using Amazon EBS volumes.

**Topics**
+ [Scale-up environment](#ebs-scale-up)
+ [Scale-out environment](#ebs-scale-out)

## Scale-up environment
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The following architecture diagram shows a scale-up environment for SAP HANA workloads using Amazon EBS volumes.

![\[Configuration for scale-up SAP HANA workloads.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sap/latest/sap-hana/images/std-sap-hana-scale-up-diagram.png)


## Scale-out environment
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The following architecture diagram shows a scale-out environment for SAP HANA workloads using Amazon EBS volumes.

![\[configuration for scale-out SAP HANA workloads.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sap/latest/sap-hana/images/std-sap-hana-scale-out-diagram.png)